Allen Haslup ’48

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Allen was born Nov. 4, 1926, and died Aug. 16, 2016, at home in St. Petersburg, Fla.

His medical career included practice in the Tampa-St. Petersburg area, both before and after service as a medical missionary in Taiwan. He was born a U.S. citizen near Manila (the Philippines were then U.S. territory; his parents purposely had made a timely move from his father’s duty station as a Marine officer in Shanghai). Allen served in the Marines and then graduated from Princeton in 1946. He went on to George Washington University Medical School and then to his residency at Johns Hopkins.

He married Eva Copley (Ebie) in 1951. They moved from Florida to Taiwan in 1978, where he spent 15 years as a medical missionary for the Presbyterian Church and as superintendent of the Changhua Christian Hospital. In 1991, they returned to St. Petersburg. Allen resumed his medical practice there until retirement in 1991, continuing to volunteer at the St. Petersburg Free Clinic.

Allen was predeceased by Ebie, who died of ALS in 2001. He is survived by children Allen, Elizabeth, Forrest, and Mary Jo; 12 grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.